Every build asks the same question too late: when should I have started? The con countdown asks it first. Name the con and its first day, and the board becomes the build's timeline, days to the doors, at the top, in large print.
Boards now work the way a workshop does: New costume starts a clean board, and Copy as start keeps your pieces as a beginning and resets the stages, because the second armor build should not repeat the first one's bookkeeping. Pieces click from cutting to dressed, and the progress bar answers "dressed and done" as a percentage you did not have to estimate.
Then the pace line, the planner's rule of thumb, worth printing before the fun ones: printing + smoothing + painting usually wants three weekends per big piece, start the helmet first. Print the bench sheet, pin it where the foam lives, and let the board save itself in your browser. Nothing leaves it.
Hang the mask. — the workshop crew